Clinton Backer: Obama Will Win

[General Zod]

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(CNN) — A key Hillary Clinton supporter appeared to be a bit off message during a recent interview with a Canadian radio station.

"If I had to make a prediction right now, I'd say Barack Obama is going to be the next president," Missouri Rep. Emanuel Cleaver said in a Canadian public radio interview this weekend. "I will be stunned if he's not the next president of the United States."

Cleaver, an African-American, endorsed Clinton's White House bid last year and formally remained aligned with the New York senator even as other black leaders shifted their support to Barack Obama.

But after his district voted for Obama in the February 5 primary, Cleaver did indicate he would consider voting for the Illinois senator at the party's convention if the delegate count was extremely tight between the two candidates.

In the Canadian radio interview, Cleaver made clear he doesn't expect Clinton to overtake Obama, comparing his support of the New York Democrat to that of his hometown losing football team.

“Even though I don't expect the Kansas City Chiefs to beat the Indianapolis Colts, I cheer for the Kansas City Chiefs,” he said.

He also pushed back on the notion Clinton should take her fight for the party's nomination all the way to the August convention — though he acknowledged that is not the position he is supposed to take.

"If I do the party line, I'm supposed to say — and maybe I'll say, just so if anybody hears it they can say well, 'Cleaver did the party line before he told the truth' — we believe that a contest going all the way to the convention is good for America."

But, he added, an actual convention fight would be a “tragedy of tragedies.”

Even people supporting Hillary are starting to admit that she doesn't stand a chance in winning. . .how many more is it going to take for Hitlery to admit that she just can't win legitimately? I do find his comparison of backing Hitlery to that of backing the local sports team amusing though.

[Oni Koneko Damien]

The Hillary campaign just issued a press release. Apparently her supporters 'don't matter' anymore.

[Patrick Degan]

You can pretty well predict the coming "traitor" and "backstabber" labels that will be cast at Rep. Cleaver from some segments of the Clinton camp. But Cleaver is supposed to be a loyal Democrat and his first loyalty is supposed to be to the Democratic Party. That what's good for the party is not necessarily what's good for Hillary has to be his consideration. It should be hers as well.

Sadly, it doesn't appear to be, though.

[General Zod]

You can pretty well predict the coming "traitor" and "backstabber" labels that will be cast at Rep. Cleaver from some segments of the Clinton camp. But Cleaver is supposed to be a loyal Democrat and his first loyalty is supposed to be to the Democratic Party. That what's good for the party is not necessarily what's good for Hillary has to be his consideration. It should be hers as well.

Sadly, it doesn't appear to be, though.

You also gotta like this tidbit of the article.

Cleaver, an African-American

Would they have mentioned his race at all if he were white?

[cosmicalstorm]

I really hate the 'African-American' label, you never hear anyone refer to white people as 'European-Americans'.

[chitoryu12]

I really hate the 'African-American' label, you never hear anyone refer to white people as 'European-Americans'.

According to our Black History Month speaker at school this year, black people are treated so differently because they were the only race to enter this country against their own will as slaves. Basically, he thinks that we should refer to only black people by their heritage rather than skin color as a way of making up for all the shit we threw their way up through the 1960s.

The article mentioned it as a way of saying, "Look, not all the black people went to Obama!", probably as a half-assed attempt at disproving the rumors that all the black people support Obama just because he's black.